How do I start 6mo DS room sharing with his 3yo sis who needs about an hour to wind down??

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DD takes ages to fall asleep, needs to sing, talk to herself, read stories to herself etc before she falls asleep.

DS needs to be in his cot by 630.

We have put his new cot up in her bedroom but I am terrified of putting them in the room together alone.

Any tips/ thoughts? Do I need to JFDI and see what happens? Sit by the door for the first few nights? Worried about her lobbing sharp objects into his cot to see if he'll wake up and play or something, tho she is generally quite good with him. She is only aggressive towards him when she gets over tired over excited or needs a cuddle.

Well my first thought is that your DS is WAY too young to share with his sister. He's very young indeed....I would worry about her climbing in, about her getting woken up by his crying, about her lobbing toys in and poking small choking hazards in.

What's the rush?

From what you describe putting them in a room together right now is a bad idea

Definitely too young to share. I would wait until ds is at least 18 months before I would even consider it.

Even if it means keeping him in your room.

Sounds a bit risky to me. Think you could well have two over tired grumpy children. I'd keep DS in with you until DD is older and hopefully less likelly to lob toys etc

What we used to do was put the older one to fall asleep in our bed then carry her across. Obviously that depends on how deeply she sleeps and how heavy, but it worked for us. Even now when two are sharing if we're away or somethng. One will read in our bed until sleepy, then walk across when ready to go to sleep.

We cannot fit his cot in our room, we are both going nuts having him in our room, he's got to go - we have to give it a try I think. We basically need to move house! We had hoped DD would have chilled out a bit by now but evidently that is not to be....

I am going to give it a go this eve, and try to give DD some nice quiet time in our bed before she goes to sleep in her room a bit like DW.

I am going to get something easy to cook for supper and will sit outside with the door open till they are both settled. Having lots of chats about being quiet when DS is asleep etc. I guess he is still quite young but I really really would like my privacy back, after co sleeping for all these months I am missing my DH!!!